So after almost a year of struggle I finally bit the bullet and had the surgery yesterday. What they ended up doing was the LIS, one tag removal and excising a couple of hemorrhoids. Not a full hemorrhoidectomy but as the surgeon described she just burned them off to minimize them.
The entire procedure lasted about an hour and immediately post surgery I had about a level 4 pain. I’d describe it as the pain/pressure you feel when you bump into a corner of a table..but in your anus. They gave me 3 types of pain killers in the surgery recovery room but the pain was never fully gone.
Day of surgery: when I got home I had pain but nothing too terrible. Just layed in bed all day and managed with 3 ibuprofens but ended up taking Norco at around 9 PM. I took off the gauze and there was some blood, but not a lot. I was expecting it to be packed in, but it was just taped to the outside.
Day 1: woke up at 7 AM with terrible pain, I’d say around an 8. Just a deep, throbbing kind of pain. Took another Norco and it went away in about 30 min. The ache is still there but more like a 3 on the pain level, no more throbbing. Tried to sit up while eating breakfast but got super dizzy and nauseous, so I’ll probably spend the day in bed. At the moment I’m too scared to look at the surgical area so I’ll probably do that in a few days. So far the pain from the surgery has been SIGNIFICANTLY worse compared to the fissure pain, but I’d say my fissure pain was more of a constant 1-2, so I never experienced the pain many describe here other than one flare up I had. Also finding it hard to pee the bit of pushing hurts the anal area, so I’ve been doing it standing up and letting all slowly come out. No BM movement yet. Walking around isn’t too bad, I’m able to go to the bathroom by myself but rolling out of bed and getting back in is a bit difficult.
Will continue to update this as the weeks go by. I have 2 weeks off work, so hopefully I’m healed by then!